CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
As a Platform Engineer on the Development and Language Standards team, you will make it easy for teams to conform to engineering best practices and leverage modern libraries and development tools. You will have an opportunity to be a high impact contributor to engineering efficiency across the firm by developing standards, modernizing tooling, leading working groups, and collaborating with development teams. You will work closely with engineers to understand their workflows and identify ways to improve the development experience across the firm. You will stay abreast of technology trends, provide recommendations on adoption, and help to generalize team-specific solutions to provide firmwide value.
Responsibilities
- Develop firm-wide standards for C++, Python and Java asset distribution and management and support the onboarding and adoption of those standards
- Collaborate closely with other teams to understand their requirements, facilitate
adoption of new technologies, and support them throughout the SDLC - Collaborate and facilitate with our user community to develop language specific (C++/Python/Java) standards and guidelines
- Contribute to the growth of our platform through code reviews and system reviews,
standardizing methodologies and CI/CD tooling - Operate on cross-language team to identify common workflows and pain points, and to improve developer experience across the firm for all programming languages
Qualifications
Must-haves
- Experience designing and developing multi-threaded software applications in modern C++
- Experience building services, shared APIs and tooling on Linux that enable users to meet their goals
- Strong problem solving and analytic capabilities
- A self-starter who can quickly triage issues and drive the resolution effort through
- completion
- A preference for simple, cohesive, and practical solutions
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work individually or in a team environment
- Highly familiar with at least one modern C++ build and packaging system (e.g. Bazel, CMake,
- Conan, hunter, vcpkg)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab, jenkins)
- Experience with compilation, link, and other build errors for large, complex systems
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with artifact management solutions (e.g. Artifactory)
- Familiarity with containers (e.g. Docker, Podman)
- Familiarity with Linux utilities for working with libraries (e.g. nm, patchelf, ar, ldd, objdump)
- Experience with one or more of Python, Java, Javascript
Compensation
- Salary Range: 150k - 200k, plus a discretionary bonus.
- The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individuals skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance.
Our Benefits
(Disclaimer: does not apply to contract roles) We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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